Sunday Law Advocate Sells Books on Sunday
THE following is a letter received by the editor of a Buffalo, N. Y., paper, which speaks for itself concerning the work of Wilbur F. Crafts in the sale of his book, “Patriotic Studies:”— DEAR SIR: This day [September 3] a minister who boasts of being the author of eight Sunday laws (which prohibit ordinary labor or business on the first day of the week for cash consideration), stood before a select audience (men only) and canvassed them to purchase books at one dollar per copy, stating that there would be a profit of fifty per cent. Four men were selected to take subscriptions and advance payments. But you can’t run your machinery to earn that one dollar, nor can I pound nails, on Sunday, to make the price. Then why does this man sell his wares on Sunday? Why does he pose as a Sunday law advocate, and travel from city to city breaking his own laws? These same books, “Patriotic Studies,” are printed at public expense, and the “franking privilege” of certain public officials is abused in their distribution. Yet this man, C—s, poses as a leader for law and order. The “reformer” needs some reformation himself.